Best Garden Walls and attached former Cold Bath, Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Solihull local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 July 1976. Garden walls, cold bath.

Best Garden Walls and attached former Cold Bath, Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens

WRENN ID
weathered-attic-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Solihull
Constituency
Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North MP: Liam Byrne (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 July 1976
Type
Garden walls, cold bath
Address
Best Garden Walls and attached former Cold Bath, Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens, Chester Road, Birmingham, B36 9BT
OS grid reference
SP 142 897
Coordinates
52.50568, -1.79195
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Best Garden Walls and attached former Cold Bath at Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens date from the early 18th century, specifically 1733 for the cold bath.

These garden walls are made of brick and feature brick coping stones. They enclose the Best Garden on its northern, southern, and eastern sides, covering an area of about 0.7 acres. On the north wall, one of the rooms of the former cold bath can still be seen.

The walls are built in an irregular brick bond and stand approximately 3.5 meters tall, topped with curved brick coping stones. The northern section has a large opening that leads to the north garden, along with another doorway at the western end that provides access to the former cold bath. This cold bath is rectangular and leans against the north wall of the Best Garden; it is partly in ruins and lacks a roof.

The eastern wall of the Best Garden runs alongside the hall and has openings under segmental arches to the north and south of the hall, each topped with a brick pediment. The southern wall does not have any openings and extends south to connect with the rest of the garden walls.

Local climate

Best Garden Walls and attached former Cold Bath, Castle Bromwich Hall Gardens receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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